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OmniWeb

OmniWeb

Full-featured native web browser.

Version:  5.10.1

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The browser of the gods

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Hiram Friday, November 03 2006 @ 03:59 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

OmniWeb is the browser of the gods. It has features not seen in any other browser, like site-specific preferences, separate window form editing, and page thumbnails in tabs. It used to be rather slow, but it isn't anymore. It's usually faster than Safari, Camino and FireFox. It used to be rather buggy, but now it's solid as a rock. It used to cost 30 dollars, now it costs only 10 (till the end of the month).

It's a thing of beauty. Five stars barely do it justice.

Is nothing lacking, then? Is this the best possible browser, that cannot be improved? Of course it can be improved! It could be less of a memory hog. And claim less CPU when idle. But it's improving already, in those areas, with version 5.5.1.

And there are two features that I miss. I'd like to have search-as-you-type, not just for links, but for normal text as well. And I'd like to see OmniWeb work with Growl.

But those are minor issues. This is the browser of the gods, sold at a discount.   
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The browser of the gods - Richarda1

Faster than Firefox (or Opera) ?

You've got to be joking! What are using, an OmniMac?

On my G5 1.6 both Firefox and Opera open windows MUCH faster than OW, and are FREE. Yeah - FREE. As it should be.

Sheesh!

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Sunday, November 05 2006 @ 12:37 AM PST


Install Linux to your Mac, Linux is free too - Ilgaz

"Should be Free Free!", lets see if Firefox could ship their browser if AOL didn't donate them $2 Million, Google donated them to make default search engine and users didn't donate.

If you don't like Omniweb,stay away from its comments.

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Monday, November 06 2006 @ 04:16 AM PST


The browser of the gods - sgmiller

I heartily second exactly those two recommendations. I just switched to OW but I do miss Growl and search as you type. Also, a keyboard shortcut for Send Link would be great!

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Tuesday, March 27 2007 @ 12:44 PM PDT